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Air Zimbabwe to sell 2 Boeing passenger planes
Air Zimbabwe has announced plans to sell two Boeing 777-200ER passenger aircraft it acquired from Malaysia a few years ago, as the national carrier continues to battle longstanding financial difficult...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 15:05hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF trying to win via the back door
Last night I was briefed by my law partner Josephat Tshuma who is part of the CCC legal team opposing the spurious application brought by Zanu-PF surrogates to set aside the nomination of the 12 ...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 16:35hrs | | by David Coltart
Zanu-PF, Gweru residents clash over vending space
THE ruling Zanu-PF is headed for a showdown with Gweru residents who are accusing the party of bypassing city council procedure in the allocation of vending space to accommodate its members ahead of i...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 18:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
President's wide powers on mining fuel extractive resources corruption
THE excessive, wide and discretionary powers of the President of Zimbabwe and Minister of Mines over the country's vast mineral resources and their allocation is perpetuating rampant corruption in the...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 17:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court decision leaves MDC-T in disarray
THE MDC held a bruising conference to choose a new leader in December and it has resulted in a legal battle. The MDC's Thokozani Khupe ran to be the party's leader against Douglas Mwonzora. She lost t...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why RBZ needs autonomy
Former reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono recently appeared on Zimbabwean entrepreneur and newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube's discussion series In Conversation with Trevor.Amo...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Admire Dube
Bulawayo: The absent citizen
He must have been a pro. We never had a glimpse of the camera-man. He stood afixed to the door and focused on the desk and the town clerk's quivering face and frothing mouth. Even watching, many faint...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:24hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
Unholy intimacy between church, politicians exposed
There is collusion between the State and the church right at the thick of the country's crippling socio-political problems.The grand conspiracy was displayed in this month's installment of The...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Kennedy Nyavaya
Mnangawa bans political meddling in aid distribution to Cyclone victims
GOVERNMENT has banned political parties from any interference with the distribution of food and other forms of aid to Cyclone Idai survivors in parts of Manicaland.Responding to questions from...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:41hrs | 5 | by newzimbabwe
Lumumba calls ZANU PF leaders mad
Embattled whistleblower Wiiliam Mutumanje (Acie Lumumba) has blasted ZANU PF government over its management of the national Airline, Air Zimbabwe. Said Lumumba, "I do not understand my party Z...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 08:59hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Chamisa ill-advised on court route'
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa and his MDC party are ill-advised in attacking the judiciary on the outcome of a recent urgent application filed by his party in which they sought to...Published: 02 May 2018 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Identity crisis of the urban planning profession in Zimbabwe: a tragedy of 'politics in planning'
Since 1980s urban planning profession has been groping in the dark, still, it could not find light anymore. Planning in the face of political power has become troubling and injurious to the soul of th...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 08:09hrs | 16 | by Kelvin Zhanda
Mugabe's new-look team fast running out of time
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other key economic stakeholders have urged President Robert Mugabe's new-look Cabinet to quickly deal with the economy, which is now threatened with the retur...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa fight over Chiwenga
The struggle over ZANU PF succession has affected the texture of the democratic processes in Zimbabwe that has experienced flawed elections one after the other. The ramifications of the succession pro...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 08:09hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
The Dilemma Of A Mnangagwa Presidency
As Zimbabwe's Opposition remains in disarray and continues to struggle to form a Grand Coalition to challenge Zanu PF's dominance in the 2018 General Elections. And despite President Mugabe's refusal ...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 07:20hrs | | by Darlington Nyambiya
Air Zimbabwe a shell, says CEO
The new Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) chief executive officer (CEO), Ripton Muzenda, has spoken for the first time about his opposition to the ongoing scramble for strategic partnerships, saying the airli...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Policemen severely brutalised
President Mugabe led State of the Republic of Zimbabwe has ideologically severely brutalised the role of the police force mobilising the force for political combat against the people it is suppo...Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 20:13hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
Government Officials must learn from Dr Utete
Zimbabwe buried a true national hero yesterday in the mould of Dr Charles Utete. He is the first civil servant to be interred at the national shrine. President Mugabe could be visibly seen that he was...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 14:39hrs | | by Charity Maodza
'Mnangagwa sabotaged'
ZANU-PF factional fights have been blamed for the embarrassingly low turn-out at the government-sponsored Workers' Day commemorations addressed by Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa at Rufaro Stadium o...Published: 04 May 2016 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti's transitional government wishful
People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader, Tendai Biti, is hooked to the concept transitional governments so much that whenever he addresses the media, he forgets to expound on his party policies but dwe...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 11:06hrs | | by Tendai Moyo
Zimbabweans schedule meeting to establish a Humanitarian Fund in SA
A meeting has been scheduled on the 4th April 2015 to resuscitate and push the boundaries of the Zimbabwe Humanitarian Crisis Relief Programme (ZHCRP) throughout the whole country of Zimbabwe. In 2008...Published: 01 Apr 2015 at 10:44hrs | | by Zim ID
'Mangwana to replace Attorney-General Johannes Tomana'
HARARE - Eminent lawyer Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana is tipped to become the new Attorney General of Zimbabwe, highly-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday.The notification in this regard...Published: 29 Aug 2013 at 13:58hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
A political solution without manipulation is a key element for calm in South Africa's Lonmin debacle
A dark cloud covered South Africa last week when police opened fire and killed 34 miners, shocking the nation that is seen as the new hope for African regeneration. The whole world watched wi...Published: 24 Aug 2012 at 07:16hrs | | by Mathula Lusinga
Tsvangirai tours Harare City Water Works
Tsvangirai tours Harare City Water Works Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today castigated politicians who bring in ill-informed political opinions into the operations of public institutions sayi...Published: 22 Jun 2012 at 15:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a leadership that respects the constitution - Makoni
Mavambo Kusile Dawn (MKD) leader Simba Makoni said what Zimbabwe needed was a leadership which could respect the constitution because a supreme law under the same leadership of Zanu-PF and President R...Published: 24 Apr 2012 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Arab stolen revolution
After Israel and its Western backers defeated Arab nationalism in 1967, a solicitous Nizar Qabbani emotionally called for the rekindling of the Arab fighting spirit.He wrote in a poem:...Published: 09 Jan 2012 at 04:59hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Youths give ZYC ultimatum, threaten tough measures
LAST week The New Age Voices carried an article with reactions of some youth organisations and other stakeholders on the suspension of YETT's licence by the Zimbabwe Youth Council. The Editor of The N...Published: 07 Oct 2011 at 11:27hrs | 1 | by harare@byo24.com
Political meddling may dash Zimbabwe’s growth hopes again
DOZENS of Zimbabwe’s business leaders attended the annual CEO Roundtable this past weekend to discuss how to create a R700bn economy by 2030.The CEO Ro...Published: 21 Feb 2011 at 07:19hrs | | by Dianna Games
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